A list of seven languages hanging on by a thread is entertaining, but the real predictors of language death are duller and far more reliable than speaker counts.
Posts with tag.: Linguistic diversity
Linguists in Arunachal Pradesh set out to record an Aka dialect and found Koro instead, a distinct language with about 1,000 speakers and no written record.
Stephen Pax Leonard will live a year with the Inughuit to record Inuktun, an undocumented language with about 1,000 speakers and a thinning sheet of ice.
African languages embody the cultural heritage, diversity, and identity of the continent